BizTalk Summit 2015 – London

BizTalk Summit 2015 – London

Last year I had the opportunity to participate in the BizTalk Summit in London.  It was a great event with more than 200 attendees from 20 different countries present.  For a recap of this trip please check out this blog post.

I was recently asked if I was interested in coming back to speak at this year’s event which I gladly accepted.

More details will be available in coming weeks but the agenda is shaping up to be excellent with sessions from the BizTalk Product group, other Microsoft employees and several Microsoft Integration MVPs. I think this event will be even bigger than the recent Integrate event in Redmond which was a big success.  If you are in Europe, you do not want to miss this event.

My session abstract has been put forward and should be up on the event website in the coming days so I don’t want to ruin that surprise, but you can expect it to be focused on Azure API Management and how it plays a role in a BizTalk developer’s toolset.

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The adapter "WCF-SAP" raised an error message. Details "System.ServiceModel.CommunicationObjectFaultedException: The communication object, Microsoft.Adapters.Internal.LayeredChannelBindingElement.LayeredInboundChannel cannot be used for comm

In the last few weeks I have been playing around with WCF-SAP adapter, I have many thing to write about it in terms of installation, configuration, communication and so on but I will start with this topic/problem. While trying to create a WCF-SAP Receive port to be able to listener incoming IDOC from SAP system […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

BizTalk Mapper tips and tricks: How to solve prefix problems (Exception Caught: ’ns1 is an undeclared prefix) in inline XSLT scripts

BizTalk Mapper tips and tricks: How to solve prefix problems (Exception Caught: ’ns1 is an undeclared prefix) in inline XSLT scripts

Back again to one of my favorites topics: transformations. This is something that several people asked me for help in the past but I never found time to reply… until now. A quite note: if you want to know more about BizTalk Maps transformation check out my free book available at BizTalk360 website: BizTalk Mapping […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Migrating Business Rules Policies from BizTalk Server 2006/2006 R2 to BizTalk Server 2013 R2

Migrating Business Rules Policies from BizTalk Server 2006/2006 R2 to BizTalk Server 2013 R2

Here’s a topic that, without any particular reason, I never or I rarely addressed in my blog: Business Rules Engine (BRE) The goal of this post is not to explain BRE but since it’s the first time that I cover something related with this topic, let’s first make a small introduction and share some notes […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Introducing BTFGui

Today I published one of my little projects on GitHub. It’s called BTFGui and in essence it is just a simple GUI around the BizTalkFactory Management Automation (SDK) to do some basic BizTalk Administration.

Currently it has the following features:

  • Stop/Restart HostInstances
  • Stop/Restart Applications
  • Remote Applications
  • Export Application Bindings
  • Terminate Suspended Instances

You can find It here on GitHub.

The main reason why I put this little thing together is simple: the BizTalk Administration Console can be very slow and time wasting if you just want to restart a hostinstance or export a binding. Therefore I created BTFGui and I can tell you that it saves me a lot of time when developing on my local BizTalk Server instance.

Introducing BTFGui

Today I published one of my little projects on GitHub. It’s called BTFGui and in essence it is just a simple GUI around the BizTalkFactory Management Automation (SDK) to do some basic BizTalk Administration.

Currently it has the following features:

  • Stop/Restart HostInstances
  • Stop/Restart Applications
  • Remote Applications
  • Export Application Bindings
  • Terminate Suspended Instances

You can find It here on GitHub.

The main reason why I put this little thing together is simple: the BizTalk Administration Console can be very slow and time wasting if you just want to restart a hostinstance or export a binding. Therefore I created BTFGui and I can tell you that it saves me a lot of time when developing on my local BizTalk Server instance.

Where are my functoids in the grip page? The giant Adamastor I reached and went over the end of the world

Where are my functoids in the grip page? The giant Adamastor I reached and went over the end of the world

I’m not much of a historian and I don’t read too many history books but from what I can remember from my school days (please be open mind and do not think I’m completely crazythe story will have a context and meaning at the end) The Story A few hundred years ago many cultures around […]
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BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Installation: Error 1921

The Problem:

When installing BizTalk 2013 R2 on a fresh development machine, I encountered the following error:
“Error 1921.Service Windows Management Instrumentation (WinMgmt) could not be stopped. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to stop system services.”

As my “Trend Micro Office ScanAgent” (the OfficeScan NT Listener in the screenshot) was dependant of the “Windows Management Instrumentation service”, I was not able to stop it manually:

The Solution:

However: I was able to change the startup type of the WMI service:

So change to startup type of the WMI service to “Disabled”, do a Windows restart and you should be able to re-run the BizTalk installer without the previous error… You will however experience a new error…

This makes sense as we completely disabled the WMI service. So, change the startuptype back to “Automatic” and start the WMI service yourself (this should be possible now):